Thread by @GeorgeMonbiot

Happy New Year everyone. Here’s our 2022 to-do list:
1. End the pandemic ASAP, so we can get on with the other stuff. So:
a. Encourage hesitant friends to get vaccinated
b. Demand ventilation systems in schools and venues, public test and trace and a properly funded NHS.
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2. Demand a commensurate response to the climate and environmental crisis: ie a WWII-sized industrial transition and global mobilisation.
I think the most important component is a complete transformation of the global food system (Regenesis, out in May, seeks to map this).

3. Fight tooth and nail against the new authoritarianism, embodied in the UK’s Police Bill, that would ban effective forms of protest, while legislatively cleansing Gypsies, Roma and Travellers. Demand that Labour opposes it in the Lords (instead of abstaining, ffs).

4. Press for the re-establishment of public protections, reversing the catastrophic deregulation of the past 40 years, which has exposed us to rising exploitation by chancers, con artists and organised crime.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

5. Mobilise for a progressive alliance to defeat the most corrupt and dangerous government in living memory.
Press for proportional representation, political reform and a formal constitution, to ensure that we can never again be subject to such misrule.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

6. Keep mobilising for the release of #JulianAssange, and against the government's proposed extension of the Official Secrets Act, that would expose whistleblowers and investigative journalists to prosecution.

7. Recognise that we are far more powerful than we are told. Humans made these systems. Humans can change them. Social tipping points could be reached in months, if our theory of change is right, and we apply it consistently: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…